Dexter is sleep-deprived
from staying up with the new baby, and
as a result, he isn't thinking straight.

After he kills
boxer Benny Gomez, we see him heading home. He's driving in his Kia Sportage
SUV on a lonely road at night, when he falls asleep at the wheel. His car
goes out of control, rolls over, and crashes.

We then see
the scene again after Dexter wakes up, as he's being loaded into an ambulance.

Police and paramedics
are on the scene.

It is then that
Dexter remembers that the dismembered body parts of Benny Gomez are in
his car's trunk.

When a fireman
says that they've found something, he's certain that they've found Benny,
but
it turns out to be just a the baby medicine Dexter picked up at the pharmacy
on his way home.

They take him
to the hospital, tell him he's suffering from a concussion, but he leaves
the hospital early and goes looking for the body.

His first stop
is the city auto tow yard, where they towed
his smashed-up car. He expects to find the body in the trunk, but
it isn't there.

So he returns
to the scene of the accident, and we get to see the location during the
day. It's a park-like setting, with some large electrical towers visible
in the background.

Dexter searches
the area, in case the body was thrown from the car during the accident.
It wasn't.

The concussion
has left him with holes in his memory of the night before, and he can't
remember what he did with the body.

(An earlier scene of Dexter driving, at the very start of this first
episode, was also shot in the same general area.)

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A park road.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. This scene
was filmed at El Dorado Park
in Long Beach, CA.
The official address is 2800 N. Studebaker Road.

But El Dorado
is a very large park, so we need to be more specific.

They filmed
this roll-over scene on the west side
of the park (near the river channel), in the park section north
of Spring Street. There's an archery range in that corner
of the park, and they shot the scene on the road that runs along the west
side of that range, but farther north on that road - where you'll find
those big electrical towers. (See the map
link for the specific spot.)

To reach the
spot, you need to enter the park through the entrance on the north side
of Spring Street, then follow the road west (past the archery range), then
north about 800 yards.

[ Warning: the
park charges an admission fee when you enter. ]

(While you're
there, you can also see the "pit stop"
where Dexter & Trinity stopped on their way to Tampa.)

And the park's Nature Center
was used for the alligator scene in
the first season.

The
two photos below were shot by Dexter fan Kerry Weiss, in
November 2009.
They show the area in El Dorado park where they filmed the scene of Dexter's
car accident.

Kerry
Weiss shot the photos below - of the actual
filming - in June of 2009.

When
fan Kerry Weisswatched the earlier filming of the bathtub
murder scenes, she heard them mention that they would be filming a
"roll-over" scene soon at the park. Kerry lives next to El Dorado
Park, so it was a convenient opportunity to observe another scene being
shot.

She
shot the photos you see above, and let me know the exact spot where they
filmed it.